A large explosion Monday sent black smoke into the Nairobi skyline from the upscale shopping mall that has been under terror attack since Saturday. At least 68 people have been killed, including a Canadian diplomat and another Canadian national. Forty people are believed to be still trapped in the complex.

BlackBerry Ltd. begins life this week as a company focused on selling smartphone services to businesses, a last-ditch effort to try to hold market share in an industry it pioneered and once dominated.

Is the U.S. shale boom just a fantasy concocted by politicians and industry bigwigs?

Canada’s free trade deal with the European Union could be nearing the finish line.

Canada’s Big Three telecommunications companies failed to gain traction in their push to change the government’s spectrum auction rules, so they’ll shift their focus to other matters–such as roaming fees and potentially new regulations, say industry observers.

Weyerhaeuser announced plans to greatly expand its forest holdings and potentially divest itself of a big homebuilding unit, in moves that seem aimed at focusing the company around its core timber business.

Montreal Mayor Michael Applebaum has been taken into custody by UPAC, Quebec’s anti-corruption unit.

Verizon Communications Inc. is looking at a move into Canada’s cellular telephone business, one of several possible new entrants whose arrival would salvage the federal government’s ambitions for a fourth wireless player across the country.

Toronto-listed GMP Capital Inc.’s CEO talks about the firm’s growth ambitions and his take on global equity capital markets.

Unlike the steelworkers and shipbuilders who worked with vast quantities of asbestos decades ago, the latest round of mesothelioma sufferers tend to be more idiosyncratic, changing asbestos litigation.

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